Hanne Blank Quotes
I want to get one thing straight right from the start: I am not a natural-born jock. I am about as intrinsically athletic as an oyster, with the innate grace and sporty prowess of a brick—a very cute oyster and a very intelligent brick, if I do say so myself, but oysterly and bricklike nevertheless.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.
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I want to get one thing straight right from the start: I am not a natural-born jock. I am about as intrinsically athletic as an oyster, with the innate grace and sporty prowess of a brick—a very cute oyster and a very intelligent brick, if I do say so myself, but oysterly and bricklike nevertheless.
